"The real question is, Bill...do the genetic mutations occur in a random fashion...with the most favorable changes being perpetuated by survival....or do they occur as a result of an actual intention on some level of consciousness? In other words, is evolution an intelligent process or is it a random process?"

If there is one process that is the crowning glory of all non-goal-oriented processes, it's evolution. There is never an end product (even after four billion years). For every "successful" mutation there are millions of failures. The evolutionary tree is a mass of dead ends and extinctions. Miscopying produces freaks, monsters and non-viable offspring, all of which die out. Evolution is the story of extremely rare successes wallowing in a vast ocean of a myriad of disasters (if that really was you, God, get a grip, old boy!). Every mutation that ever happened can be explained by the laws of nature. There is no mysterious hand, and anyone who thinks there is, in the light of all this evidence, is seriously deluded. In fact, the declaration that God's hand is behind evolution is just about the biggest intellectual copout I can think of. By the way, evolution by natural selection is anything but a "random process" and, if you still say it is, you are displaying your ignorance of the science behind it.